How To Use Angling In A Sentence
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The preceding months of wrangling were the cause of a great deal of economic uncertainty.
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It came as ministers agreed a deal to end months of bitter wrangling.
The Sun
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Apparently the section cannot adequately host the interests of both angling and boating fraternities and the boaters have taken preference.
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Ms. Thompson, whose city is wrangling with $288 million in incinerator debt, said seeking state help is only one step toward resolving Harrisburg's problems, and that "there are many difficult steps to come.
Harrisburg Asks State for Relief
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He suggested that tangling fishing gear should be made a criminal offence.
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Cornelius observed that the wooden bobbin dangling on a string from the window blind was the shape of an acorn.
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Step6: With tray Cheng Fangling's random bottle container canister, get ready for the guest brush towel, the odour of more ameliorable toilet after beautiful sweet candle is ignited.
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My ears were met with the noise of Bam nervously jangling his car keys.
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Behind that quietness his nerves are jangling, he's in a terrible state.
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Next to the phone, there was a pencil dangling on a string.
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His hand was frozen, suspended in mid-air, the necklace barely dangling off it.
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But wrangling over a £1m cash shortfall has delayed the plans by at least four to five months.
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Bights of buntline and other ropes were dangling from above, only waiting to be swung from.
The Blue Lagoon: a romance
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Once or twice a day the intrepid fisherman ‘runs’ his trot line meaning he gets in a boat and checks the hook dangling beneath each float and if necessary sticks a fresh perch on it for bait.
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Is that strangling the nascent ‘alarm tone’ market?
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A top-heavy nurse in cricket pads and dangling overhead light pack struggles to aim a fire breathing generator in a duel with a whip-cracking foreman.
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The decision made, he turned and swaggered out of the door, idle hands swinging and dangling as he strode manfully toward the stairwell.
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The messenger's purposeful tread down the short avenue followed; then the noisy jangling of the bell.
Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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So how 'bout simply saying a muted but sincere 'Thank you, God' for an honest and smart president who's trying to move ahead by untangling the 'fubar' mess left by the crooks, dummies and wackos who ruled Washington for eight long years.
Giles Slade: Obama Without Glamour
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a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: 6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; 7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Instead he handed me a jangling set of keys.
Times, Sunday Times
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There have been many trends in angling over the years and this was probably one of them.
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The Changling is coincidentally what I called my youngest son during potty training.
TRAILER FOR LATEST EASTWOOD JOINT
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In this first episode, nerves are jangling as one woman tries to open a tin with a carving knife and rolling pin.
The Sun
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Riders are suspended in the jaws of a vampire bat, their legs dangling free, as they swoop over the treetops and soar through the sky.
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Bangladeshi water engineers say that Indian barrages, canals, reservoirs and irrigation schemes are slowly strangling the country and are stopping its development.
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Mary glanced up; a tall, gangling woman was standing by the horse litter that held the sleeping Charley.
T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
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This tight collar is strangling me.
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Sounds like dangling that ole lawsuit bugaboo.
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My own coat was still draped over the chair by the door, but even from where I stood I could see loose threads dangling from the seams.
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His weapon of choice is a deadly flail and he doesn't balk at finishing off wounded soldiers - or at sneaking up on them and strangling them.
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The first clinical sign of myocardial ischemia is usually angina pectoris, a term used to describe the strangling chest pain experienced by many patients with ischemic heart disease.
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He closed his fist around the cross dangling from the necklace at her throat.
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Many in the angling world mourned the death, from old age, of the fish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Le Mercier was a pickthank, angling after the favor of La Pompadour, -- a pretentious knave, as hollow as one of his own mortars.
The Golden Dog
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But she was criticized as a showboat for her victory prance around the field with an enormous fake gold medal dangling from her neck and a cell phone pressed to her ear.
The Bad Girl of Women’s Soccer
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They then often witness commissioners tangling with department management.
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Both sea fishing and fresh water angling are available in the locality.
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“Poets As Bad Guy, then and now:” I like to enter small jerkwater towns/with engine roaring, then rock to a stop/and park before a group of local clowns/to make a cigarette-dangling entrance.
Ron offen | 2 poems and more about… « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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In the first Hostel, the movie eventually revealed that its real interest was purely in shock value and the scopophiliac pleasures of dangling eyeballs.
Movie Recommendations
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There are beautiful designer dresses dangling from rails, vertiginous heels lined up beside them - but they seem to hold little interest.
Times, Sunday Times
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In both instances, wrangling over how much information should be made public is holding up the process.
Times, Sunday Times
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That leaves the oxygen with a very friendly bond dangling, and it likes to hook up with its nearby carbon buddy, to form what is called the carbonyl bond.
Alcohol
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Janyn was strolling jauntily back towards his headland and the open fields, where he could fly the merlin on his creance without tangling her in trees to her confusion and displeasure.
The Devil's Novice
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It came as ministers agreed a deal to end months of bitter wrangling.
The Sun
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Instead he handed me a jangling set of keys.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the same time, by dangling the art in an implied deep space, Bontecou conceives a void filled with anti-gravitational activity.
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The man on the doorstep had a camera dangling round his neck and was wearing a soft trilby hat - the kind that George Raft used to wear.
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There was a balletic quality to the goal, yet he is a gangling figure.
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There was a rope dangling down into a dark, bottomless hole.
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A day's angling on this water can offer so many challenges with different styles of angling.
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However, recently he was censured for dangling his baby son Bob near the open jaws of a crocodile and forced to make an apology to his millions of fans.
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You might call her "gangling" -- stretched out, a bit taller and svelter and better muscled than you would think, especially in the crucial upper-arm area.
Gwyneth Paltrow In 'Vogue': Owns 2 Outdoor Pizza Ovens, Deep-Fat Fryer (PHOTOS)
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The bill's promoter stated specifically that he has no intention of going on to tackle shooting or angling.
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One preternaturally long bony hand, a length of severed rope dangling from the wrist, clutched with clawed fingers at a sword gash in chain mail stained with dried blood.
Conan The Invincible
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Another half-second and he would have found himself in limbo, lips dangling.
PROSPECT HILL
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The rest of the room was decorated rodeo style with red booths, horseshoes dangling from the walls, and cowboy hats littered on several of the tabletops.
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She escaped serious injury as a pavement cafe boss rushed to grab her shoulders as she was left dangling yesterday.
The Sun
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The gangling forward may appear ungainly but he finished his run into the area to latch on to a through ball with a neat stab past him.
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These formal encounters are always an awkward mixture of grandstanding and highly technical wrangling about the terms of trade.
Times, Sunday Times
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I want to see what shadows are cast by a Calder mobile dangling from an ear, or to hear what kind of percussive music it creates.
Body Sculpture Crafted by Calder
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Firstly, I apologise to Ira Gershwin for mangling his lyrics to create the title of this article!
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Nothing a writer says surprises me anymore, not even if Jeff VanderMeer told me he did his first drafts while dangling naked upside from a coconut palm, writing in squid ink through the hollowed fingerbone of William S. Burroughs.
MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1)
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Instead he handed me a jangling set of keys.
Times, Sunday Times
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The penniless stand at the sea wall, dangling hooks into the surf, and stare out at the oil tankers queuing up in the bay.
Times, Sunday Times
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Be still, our jangling nerves.
The Sun
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As an aside, it occurred to me that Tyrion could have fulfilled the prophecy if he'd killed Cersei with the same improvised garotte he used to take his revenge on Shae -- and that Jaime might find the Hand's chain of office "handy" himself for the purpose, given that his gold prosthetic isn't really suitable for tasks like strangling psychopathic sisters.
Casting clues and possible solutions
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But this time he has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangster rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing.
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It was a strange in-between time for Manila, a time when the bind seemed especially strangling.
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Then, angling her flashlight to direct the beam ahead of her, she carefully inspected the wall to her right until she found a hole the size of a nickel disguised in the carvings.
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Edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, etext format mangling by Kindle Unkiltering.
Making Light: Amazon versus Macmillan
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He suggested that tangling fishing gear should be made a criminal offence.
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This is done by cutting off all fruited canes at the base and untangling new growth and tying it to supports against the wall or fence.
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This week, Mr Dhillon wrote to our letters page to say he denied all the allegations in their entirety, claiming that he was being ‘used as a scapegoat in political wranglings arising from spurious and vexatious allegations’.
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There was a cigarette dangling from his mouth.
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Chances of people dangling from ceiling Low.
Times, Sunday Times
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Laila put the hat on, angling the brim like I did.
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At the next rack a gangling teenager in jeans was looking at Brass Band Selections.
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To add insult to injury, it is legal wrangling over the controversial Spanish home that is stopping stalling a settlement.
The Sun
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Knowingly or not, these critics are mangling the facts to prove a debatable point and in the process damaging their own cause.
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I am one who believes that despite years of errors in judging, laxness of citizenry in guarding, and legal wrangling in the following years, ... the constitution is clear and means today what it meant then — no government is empowered to get in the way of owning and carrying a gun.
The Volokh Conspiracy » NRA Convention report
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Somewhat more creationist in approach is the Nerve-Wracking Ball: a bowling ball on a rope, dangling from a tall tree branch.
04.04
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Moving pinpoints of light were formed by water running down the side of the icicle, dangling from the end, and either freezing solid or being blown away by a gust of wind.
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She dragged the brush through her daughter's long hair, untangling knots as she went.
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He gives it a few lines in the context, and almost as an example of petty wrangling over trivial matters.
Christianity Today
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As he droned on, I would watch the kites flying and tangling with each other in the afternoon sky, mentally replay a lost game of marbles, or look forward to the Test match between Pakistan and the West Indies.
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After dangling for hours within arms reach of each other, the two PTIs started looking for ways to keep amused to avoid going stir-crazy.
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So, one beautiful September morning I left Srinagar, the capital of J&K, wangling a ride with an Army Signals major in his jeep proceeding to Leh as a part of an Army convoy, the then district headquarters of Ladakh.
Kargil - as I remember it
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All these people, peoples and more dominate Andes; page after page of iconic and anonymous endeavour are laid over the salt-flats, volcanoes, deserts, strangling figs and pampa as Jacobs winds south through the mountains.
Andes by Michael Jacobs
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The first bug pattern relating to null-pointer exceptions that we'll explore is one that I call the Dangling Composite pattern.
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There was a rope dangling down into a dark, bottomless hole.
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TAFF (strick struck strangling like aleal lusky Lubliner to merum-ber by the cycl of the cruize who strungled Attahilloupa with what empoisoned El Monte de Zuma and failing wilnaynilnay that he was pallups barn in the minkst of the Krumlin befodt he was pop-soused into the monkst of the vatercan, makes the holypolygon of the emt on the greaseshaper, a little farther, a little soon, a lettera - cettera, oukraydoubray).
Finnegans Wake
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There is something cartoonish about him - dangling arms, head that looks like its rolling off his neck, lumpish face and deadpan expression.
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The project has been stalled amid wrangling over how much of the cost should be paid by the City.
Times, Sunday Times
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The removal of trout from the lake is limited and permitted only to members of the Bleach Lough angling club.
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Elinor rose, and going to her bag that was still dangling from the chair back where she had flung it in her hurried preparation for dinner, took out a cardcase, and drawing forth three square bits of gray cardboard, handed them to Patricia.
Miss Pat at School
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But Clinton had left her dangling, repeatedly refusing to say whether she would win reappointment.
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I see that violent crime is out of control in our cities, snuffing out lives, mangling the limbs of the innocent, raising anxiety levels sky-high.
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Also new for 2001 is the arrival of infrared technology for headphones, eliminating the dangling wires of first-generation systems.
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Someone decided that the semicolons were needlessly fussy, resulting in what English teachers call a dangling modifier.
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And they made strides in reversing their reputations for mangling customer service and order fulfillment.
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To me, this may not be killing the Golden Goose - but it is close to a long-term strangling session.
GraniteGrok
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Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels.
A Passion for Life « Tales from the Reading Room
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Hurtling through the air, it seemed, with a sense of fierce speed, the varied clangors of the train, the ringing of the rails, the frequent hoarse blasts of the whistle, the jangling of the metallic fixtures, the jarring of the window-panes, all were keenly differentiated by her exacerbated and sensitive perceptions, and each had its own peculiar irritation.
The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
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The week past saw very little angling pressure on all trout waters within the region, the low temperatures brought about by the cold north-easterly winds keeping anglers indoors.
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And it is not the dangling boot-cut, or the over-exposed midriff that's bothering them.
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The creature poked a tiny head out from under the bush, two huge floppy ears dangling to its feet.
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It lasted less than a minute before he was red-carded for tangling with an opponent who had pulled his shirt.
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Charlie is accused of strangling a white boy to death and will be electrocuted, but the father's homophobia prevents him from being there for his son.
Irene Monroe: Black, Homophobic Horror Flicks
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Sourwood decks itself with pendulous seedpods, and hazelnut displays dangling catkins in early spring.
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They announced a'fair' compromise after two days of legal wrangling.
The Sun
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Pilots had begun learning how to parachute with life rafts dangling between their legs.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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Antiquity to angling is like social position to the gentleman:I would rather prove myself a gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches, or, wanting those virtues myself, boast that these were in my ancestors; and yet I grant, that where a noble and ancient descent and such merit meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person. . .
The ideal of the gentleman
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What better could I have done in the smoky warmth of our hearth-fire than to con, by the light of the electric bulb dangling overhead, its annals in some such voluntarily quaint and unconsciously old-fashioned volume as Irving’s Legends of the Conquest of Spain; or to read in some such (if there is any such other) imperishably actual and unfadingly brilliant record of impressions as Gautier’s
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Our salad was a large pile of finger-length matchsticks plopped into a small bowl, pieces dangling over the edges.
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He was wrapped in a kind of capot of green bays, lined with wolf-skin, had a pair of monstrous boots, quilted on the inside with cotton, was almost covered with dirt, and rode a mule so low that his long legs hung dangling within six inches of the ground.
Travels through France and Italy
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So far it looks like a thinly veiled threat to drag the process out in legalistic wranglings.
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However, it doesn't necessarily follow that I'll be involved in wrangling.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Outbuilding the South of course meant tightening the "anaconda" system of blockade, in the entangling coils of which the South was caught already.
Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray
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Occasionally the hurling bodies hit the dangling light bulb - which could easily break, exposing a wire and electrocuting the crowd.
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Do you suppose it has ever occurred to any of these morons that I never intended to buy this POS company, and was only dangling big numbers out there so that I could bump up the price that Red Hat would have to pay when its hair-trigger CEO got all huffy and rushed in to "outbid" me?
Archive 2006-12-01
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During the past week 26 anglers caught 53 trout for 68 lb in 49 angling days, mostly all to wet fly but also some by anglers trolling spoon baits.
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Already, we've got presumptuous soccer powerhouses in flames; clotheshorse managers who appear to be angling for invites aboard Valentino's yacht; referees under siege; and unforgettably melodramatic acting.
Now Appearing in South Africa: Les Mis
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One of the most basic requirements for any form of angling is a sharp hook.
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But with the visitors frustrating their illustrious opponents and Milan's nerves jangling, the league leaders were awarded a dubious spot-kick four minutes from the end when Empoli goalkeeper Daniele Balli collided with Jon Dahl Tomasson.
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As they made their way to London, the wrangling began about money.
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
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They had been wrangling with the authorities about/over parking spaces.
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Ward was angling across the slope above to cut him off.
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They do not perceive the countryside to be cool and regard angling as exclusive and expensive.
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Recorded voice (apparently of Queen Elizabeth) leads to jangling acoustic guitar and uillean pipes.
Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
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Be still, our jangling nerves.
The Sun
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Scarier yet, some deep-sea-dwelling, sci-fi-looking breeds of anglerfish, which attract prey by dangling a bioluminescent lure from their foremost dorsal spine, can take down fish their own size in a single gulp.
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The trap closed round her leg, badly mangling her ankle.
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For untangling the spaghetti bowl that is Tokyo's train/subway system, it's pretty much indispensable.
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Beginning with that brabble over the “gray cloth gowne,” there must have gone on in Hudson's party the same bickerings and wranglings that went on in Greely's party, and the same development of small animosities into burning hatreds.
Henry Hudson
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The children wrangling over the new toy.
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Scientists have been wrangling for decades about the precise reasons why we age.
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They announced a'fair' compromise after two days of legal wrangling.
The Sun
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He handles a lot of the hard stuff like actually wrangling contracts with venues and hotels, dealing directly with pretty much all of the 200 or so exhibitors, and just generally overlording it.
Talking Comics with Tim: Dustin Harbin | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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The transitory and singularly small and simple denticle in the horse exemplifies the rudiment of an ancestral structure in the same degree as do the hoofless splint-bones; just as the spurious hoofs dangling therefrom in hipparion are retained rudiments of the functionally developed lateral hoofs in the broader foot of palæotherium.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
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Furthermore, we must avoid tangling science and religion.
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Loose electric wires were dangling from the wall.
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He has a trendy haircut and wears a dangling earring, but his accent is like his father's.
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Already the sticky threads entangling him reached out to the farthest corners of time.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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But suddenly, she had both hands around his neck and was strangling him.
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But for those of us who are, our tootsies are dangling.
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If you're dressed scruffily, the chances of wangling your way into business class are slim.
The Sun
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Bush's shaky mandate was partly due to the closeness of the election vote and the legal wrangling afterwards.
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Giles tugged desperately at the manacles, his fingers scrabbling upward against the chain dangling them from the ceiling.
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The film opens with a shot of a climber dangling from a precipice.
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It remembered President Washington's warning against entangling foreign alliances.
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The getaway by bus goes smoothly until an accident sends the vehicle into a skid, leaving it dangling precariously over the edge of a cliff.
Times, Sunday Times
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Panama is angling to be the next Costa Rica, with nearly 6,000 square miles of public lands and a wildlife population (jaguars, tapirs, giant sea turtles, sloths) that'll make any tropical nation green with envy.
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Two naked light bulbs dangling from the ceiling provided light.
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This makes packing a lot simpler, and it allows the user to customize the lengths of the cords to the particular purpose - cutting down on tangling and bulk.
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But presently, in order to terrify them still more, he strode toward them, when, his sword entangling his legs, he fell upon the field of glory, and the people passed over him singing their sweetest songs.
Fantastic Fables
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The voters have to be sick of partisan wrangling and worried about unsolved national ills.
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Now, the river was as busy as the land, lights swimming hither and thither; steamboats with ropes of tiny stars bespangling their dark bulk and a white electric glare in the bow, low boats with lights that sent wavering spear-heads into the shadow beneath.
Stories of a western town
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When you are speaking with honest country people about the beauty of their fields, do not talk about "Flora spreading her fragrant mantle on the superficies of the earth, and bespangling the verdant grass with her beauteous adornments.
Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out
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At sea three more fatalities occurred from people angling from boats and rock fishing off our coastline.
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Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole could not leave it dangling as a rebuke to his legislative skills during his presidential campaign.
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The French eventually tried to break the stalemate by dangling a lure in front of Gen. Giap.
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Someone sitting on a vinyl picnic chair in a rumpled gray robe sat with his back to the door, long legs dangling over a four-foot tall ornamental railing built from a row of white sepulchral urns.
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At times she's a gangling, anti-social adolescent, and at others a snobbish know-it-all, but she's always riveting.
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With a 100 million incentive package dangling before them, the new management team certainly have sufficient carrots.
Times, Sunday Times
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To determine how the law navigates the murky issues involved in treating a mentally ill adult who does not want to be treated, NEWSWEEK's Katie Paul spoke with Lodise about the legal wrangling involved and the obstacles faced by both conservator and conservatee.
Controlling Britney
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From the door a light knock came, followed by the sound of the keys jangling as the door was unlocked.
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“He said: ‘When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints; Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.’”
Sleepless
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Disgracing the predominantly southern, rural, Christian sport of angling, which is school-speak for fishing, by the way.
CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2006
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Meanwhile, Steve dashed to Ronnie, who was dangling headfirst from the passenger door.
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The ladder cracked and he was suddenly unsupported in the darkness, scrabbling with both hands to hold on to timbers, losing his grip and dangling from the rope.
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On Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's two plantations on the South Carolina coast, as appears from his diary of 1818, a detail of four slaves was shifted from the field work each week for a useful holiday in angling for the huge drumfish which abounded in those waters; and their catches augmented the fare of the white and black families alike. [
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
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At last he reaches the final few notes, his body devoid of tension and he adds a slight delay as if playing with the listener, dangling the promise of an encore.
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One subtle touch is a handmade mobile - two wire coat hangers dangling with familiar slam-dunking silhouettes cut from black construction paper.
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Since then there's been almost a year of wrangling about how to implement his report.
Times, Sunday Times
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She longed for the gorgeousness of silk, the softness of cashmere, for swirly prints and tropical colour and dangling earrings and drama.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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I wait for them at the top, dangling my feet off the side of the building, wiggling my stiff toes in the air.
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He followed her to Switzerland one summer, and all the time that he was dangling after her (a little too conspicuously, I always thought, for a Great Man), he was writing to me about his theory of vowel-combinations -- or was it his experi - ments in English hexameter?
The Muse's Tragedy
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Chicks more than a week old are removed from their nests between early March to May by using curved needles tied to a rope which are inserted into the nest cavities entangling the chicks.
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WOMEN are becoming hooked on what used to be seen as a man's sport - angling.
The Sun
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Melinda finished detangling the rest of Emily's hair.
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Carp seem to prefer different things in different lakes and natural behaviour is liable to become modified by angling pressure.
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(mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of matutinal contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section).
Ulysses
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Sir Tristrem himself, and wrangling and disputing with all around him concerning nombles, briskets, flankards, and raven-bones, then usual terms of the art of hunting, or of butchery, whichever the reader chooses to call it, which are now probably antiquated.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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It's just like strangling his throat.
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Her dark hair should have been twined in a missish braid to keep it from tangling as she slept, and instead it spilled in dark silken handfuls over her shoulders.
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A girl sitting in the first row raised her hand eagerly, the bangles looped around her wrist jangling loudly regardless of being concealed inside her student uniform.
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I sat on our scratchy brick stoop, dangling my legs edge, feeling more rootless felt.
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Although the loftiest, sweetest music of the soul is yet unwritten, its faint articulations interblend with the jangling discords of life, as the chimes of distant bells float through the roar of winds and waves, and chant to imperilled hearts the songs of hope and gladness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
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The mangling process is simply passing linens - sheets, tablecloths, pillowcases and the like - between rollers subjected to a very considerable weight to smooth them out.
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A Sea Folk woman stared back at her, aghast, with a dozen begemmed rings in her ears and twice as many golden medallions dangling from the chain running to her nose ring.
A Crown of Swords
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Dinner was a great success despite me nearly strangling my BIL for phoning up to tell me how to cook the sprouts properly!
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When he stopped, there were usually dewdrops of sweat and condensation on his black beard; in cold weather, a dangling clot of ice; in the summer, there were fine little braids of red welts under the hairs and just above the skin.
David means | the woodcutter « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Indeed, sections of the Grand Canal have some of the best coarse angling in the country.
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So there I was, very very early in the morning, with just this bit of pretty polly in my left carman, jingle-jangling it and wondering:
Where's the show?
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And they made strides in reversing their reputations for mangling customer service and order fulfillment.
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I have nearly no dialogue, too much internal monologue, and multitudinous plot lines dangling all over the place.
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The bill's promoter stated specifically that he has no intention of going on to tackle shooting or angling.
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Spectacularly set atop a Tennessee mountain, it's a veritable factory of what Tennessee Williams might have referred to -- drawlingly, with a cigarette dangling -- as "gentlemen and women of substance.
Southern Charm
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The penniless stand at the sea wall, dangling hooks into the surf, and stare out at the oil tankers queuing up in the bay.
Times, Sunday Times
